The OAK Collection Goes on Display in London
How One of The World's Greatest Watch Collections Was Assembled: HYPEBEAST talks to the owner of the OAK Collection, currently on display at London’s Design Museum.
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How One of The World's Greatest Watch Collections Was Assembled: HYPEBEAST talks to the owner of the OAK Collection, currently on display at London’s Design Museum.
Patek Phillipe timepieces take all but one place on Elite Traveler's list of the seven most expensive watches ever at auction.
Watches are arguably the perfect collectible: they satisfy the same urge to understand mechanical things that characterises car collecting, but they don’t require a cavernous garage; they have all the aesthetic variety of a collection of paintings but you don’t need the wall space; they brim with the sort of forensically tiny differentiating details that raise philatelists to boundless ecstasies but are not as geeky as stamps; and they have the element of personal ornament valued by collectors of vintage couture, Hermès handbags and jewellery. The appeal of watch collecting is easy enoug...